hRecipe 0.6.1 has just released.
The fine folks at WordPress are hard in pursuit of WordPress version 3.3, scheduled for a late November or early December 2011 release. At the time of this writing, version 3.3, beta 4 has been tagged, and is intended as Release Candidate 1 (RC1).
This matters to hRecipe users because the programming interface for using Quicktags has changed.
On the one hand, the new interface is much easier to program. On the other hand, it doesn’t appear to be backwards compatible “out-of-the-box.”
For hRecipe 0.6.1, both interfaces are supported. The code is written, it’s being tested now, and should be uploaded to WordPress some time in the next few hours.
Backwards compatibility will probably be maintained through the 0.6.x series of releases, possibly longer.
Note: if you use the visual editor, there were no changes.
Thickbox may be retiring
One of the changes proposed, as you can see on the WP Developers blog, is future removal of the Javascript thickbox interface from WordPress.
If this happens, it will result in a pretty big change in how hRecipe is used. For example, it might make sense to use a custom post type instead of a regular blog post for recipes. That’s much easier said than done: there are more moving parts there than seem obvious.
Also, custom post types aren’t really posts, they are more like pages. While they can be added to your blog feed very easily, leveraging the WordPress postmeta system for structuring data entry would require writing a custom loop to serve your recipes into your blog. (Which is one reason the Thickbox interface is so handy, no need for customizing WordPress.)
But nothing is set, yet. We’ll see how it all plays out.
What hRecipe 0.6.2 holds
Tentatively:
- Full test harness for the Javascript code driving the formatting.
- Improvements in how the styling is handled.
Likely, both of these will started, then one will driven to completion by popular demand, the other forming the 0.6.2 release.
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Hey. I just wanted to say thanks for the great plugin! My wife and I are thinking about starting a cooking blog, and this is going to be THE plugin for it.
I just wanted to let you know that I mentioned your plugin on my blog over at: http://integritywebnc.com/2012/integrity-web-articles/best-plugins-microformats-wordpress-site/ I appreciate your efforts to help move the semantic web forward!
Right on! Show me more when get it all going.
Hi Dave,
Very excited to use this plugin but I’m having some trouble getting it to work for a Page (it works fine for a post). When I click the icon to add in a Page it grays out the screen but the form doesn’t appear. I’m running WP 3.3.1. I’ve tried Chrome & Safari on MacOS and IE8 on PC. Any ideas what could be happening?
Thanks!
Chris
Hi Dave,
I just figured out what was causing the problem – another plug-in was causing problems with JS on the page. I deactivated it and now the form comes up fine on the edit Page screen.
Cheers,
Chris
Chris, glad to hear it worked out for you. Bugs like this can be pernicious, and sometimes difficult to determine which piece of code is at fault, if any. Sometimes, the engineering or architecture conspires against perfectly working code.
What I’d like to see is a Print option within the plugin. Not sure if that’s doable but it would be neat to have it right there with the recipe and with the option to print with 1, 2, all or no photos. Thanks for the plugin! I love it!
I recommend using a plugin like PrintFriendly.
Hi !
Your plugin looks really great and i will try it really soon!
The question is, before developing my own, is there a plugin that you recommend to allow people to post entry via front-end?
If not, do you have a little api in your plugin that would allow me to ease the dev of the plugin?
Thank you!
hey, did you develop a recipe plugin for the front end?
Have you stopped developing on hRecipe? The Google Rich Snippet Testing Tools returns a lot of ‘errors’ when testing the site the recipe is entered at.
If you have stopped. Could you please recommend another plugin?
Regards, Camilla